Vintage Aviation News

Save the Bomber Plant Campaign Update -Deadline Extended

October 14, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Five Million Dollars Down, Three Million Dollars to Go! — By the time you read this, the Save the Bomber Plant Campaign will have mobilized a little more than $5 million, leaving less than $3 […]

Save the Bomber Plant!

October 7, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

The mission of Warbirds News is to play a role in safeguarding the heritage of aviation history by providing increased awareness and education through the use of internet based digital media. When the Yankee Air […]

The “Save The Bomber Plant” Campaing

October 5, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

SAVE A PIECE OF HISTORY The Yankee Air Museum and the Michigan Aerospace Foundation are partnering with Ypsilanti Township, the RACER Trust and Wayne County Airport Authority to create a new campus home for the […]

Recovering a Dornier 217.ZA in a French Cave

October 1, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

On September the 21, 2013 the BBC’s website published an interesting article written by Chris Bockman ,an independent TV reporter and producer based in the French city of Toulouse, covering the recovery of German Dornier […]

Sandbar Mitchell Recovery Crew Alaska-Bound

June 22, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

We had the pleasure of finally meeting a person whose story we’ve been following for while. Patrick Mihalek, owner of Legend Of Aces Aviation and the man who is spearheading the effort to retrieve and […]

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Dornier Do 17 Retrieved From Goodwin Sands Arrives at RAF Museum Cosford

June 15, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

The Donier Do 17 that the RAF Museum recently retrieved from under 50 feet of salt water where it had lain for over 70 years, arrived at the museum’s Cosford facility today. Museum staff as […]

Despite Obstacles, RAF Museum Salvage of Dornier Do 17 a Complete Success

June 10, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

With salvage consistently hampered by poor weather and seabed geology that prevented the fitment of their carefully-engineered lifting frame, the Royal Air Force Museum nonetheless successfully managed to wrest a Dornier Do 17 from the […]

Womans Name on Turret Leads to Identification of B-17 Debris in Italian Lake

May 27, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

In Viterbo, Italy a long-standing mystery has been solved. A wrecked B-17 bomber that disintegrated upon striking the surface of Lake Bolsena during WWII has been identified after much sleuthing on the part of investigators. […]

RAF Museum Retrieval of Dornier Do 17 Proceeding

May 11, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

As we recently reported, the retrieval of what is believed to be the world’s only intact Dornier Do 17 from the Goodwin Sands off the eastern coast of England began last week. The underwater salvage […]

“Sandbar Mitchell” Soon to be Retrieved from Alaskan River

April 21, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

Two intrepid Michigan men returned from Alaska earlier this month, on a scouting mission in preparation for a June expedition to retrieve the remains of a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber that has been sitting […]

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